Nationality Canadian Role Economist Name Ross McKitrick | Website McKitrick's home page Occupation Economist Employer University of Guelph | |
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Alma mater Queen's University
University of British Columbia Organization Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C.
Member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, Kingston, Ontario, and the Global Warming Policy Foundation Education University of British Columbia, Queen's University Books Taken by Storm, Economic Analysis of Environm, Climate Change: The Facts, The Canada‑US Free Trad | ||
Dr ross mckitrick explains carbon taxes and cap trade
Ross McKitrick (born 1965) is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute. He is a member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.
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- Dr ross mckitrick explains carbon taxes and cap trade
- Ross mckitrick college of business and economics fellow in commerce for a sustainable world
- Biography
- Writing
- The Global Warming Policy Foundation
- References
He has authored works on climate change denial, including co-authoring the book Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming in 2003. McKitrick produced a series of videos and articles for the Friends of Science in which he argued that there is a "pause" in global warming that reveals flaws in current climate change models. The Friends of Science argue that the sun—not human emissions of GHG—is the main driver of climate change.
Ross mckitrick college of business and economics fellow in commerce for a sustainable world
Biography
McKitrick gained his doctorate in economics in 1996 from the University of British Columbia, and in the same year was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario. In 2001 he received an Associate Professorship and has been a full Professor since December 2008. He has also been a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute since 2002. He is a member of the academic advisory boards of the John Deutsch Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. He currently lives in Guelph, Ontario with his wife and two children. He is a member of the St. John's Anglican church in Ancaster, Ontario.
Writing
He has authored works about economics and climate change issues. The book Taken By Storm, co-authored with Christopher Essex in 2002, was a runner-up for the Donner Prize. The book Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy was published by University of Toronto Press in 2011. McKitrick was one of the most prominent figures to help promote the Hockey stick graph controversy.
McKitrick has said, "I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent."
McKitrick was a participant of the International Workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology in June 2013.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
McKitrick was chair of the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in from December 2014 to December 2015. The GWPF is a United-Kingdom-based think tank that promotes climate-change denial. and warns against what it calls "extremely damaging and harmful policies" proposed by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming.